Jordan Baseman Archive

Jordan Baseman – Dark Is The Night

UK based film artist Jordan Baseman is making new work in and around Soho interviewing inhabitants who range from the notorious to the anonymous, including hedonists and faded actors. The interview process is at the heart of Baseman’s work. He heavily edits this recorded material, juxtaposing the finished interviews with film footage taken in and around Soho, to construct narratives that mimic and yet subvert the traditional documentary film format. The end product will be a series of films that are at once semi-narrative, poetic and revealing. The works will create a portrait of a place that is both constant and fleeting.

More information, including a free coach trip from London to the preview and Jordan Baseman in conversation with Peter Bonnell on the Artsway website.

21st February – 5th April 2009
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm 

Preview and Reception for the Artist: Saturday 21st February 2009 at 2pm

A: Artsway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, SO41 6BA
T: +44 (0) 1590 682260
W: www.artsway.org.uk
E:  mail@artsway.org.uk

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The Documentary Imperative

Screenings of three new films by Jordan Baseman

Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 6pm

Saturday 1 March, 2pm & 4pm

The three films, Inside Man, An Event In The Village and The Documentary Imperative, continue Baseman’s research into ideas around contemporary portraiture and narrative structure, but also explore the nature, and experience of documentary filmmaking.

The Documentary Imperative

Monday 3 March, 6.30pm

Screening followed by an informal and open discussion about The Documentary Imperative with Amanda Ravetz, Rupert Cox, Steven Connor, Bryony Bond and Jordan Baseman.

For more information and forthcoming events go to www.alchemy.manchester.museum or email bryony.bond@manchester.ac.uk

All events take place at The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. To reserve places for events please call 0161 275 2648.

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Jordan Baseman – Joy On Toast exhibition

Joy On Toast, A Story Of Botanical Collection, is a new exhibition of work by Jordan Baseman at the Manchester Museum Botanical Storerooms.  There are only six screenings, from the 15th to the 24th November.  All screenings are free, but places are strictly limited – please phone 0161 275 2648 to reserve a place.  For more details of screening times etc. click here to download a Joy On Toast Flyer (PDF, 800K).

Joy On Toast

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Jordan Baseman exhibitions

Jordan BasemanJordan Baseman – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

15th September – 7th November 2007

Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction showcases a collection of new single-screen film and sound works by Jordan Baseman, including a new Hatton Gallery commission, Voice Hearers (2007), created in collaboration with Douglas Turkington, Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Northumberland Tyne and Wear Trust and funded by Arts Council England.The works consider portraiture, identity, the study of ourselves, aspiration, belief, and the nature of our very existence, dealing equally in notions of false starts, mistakes, errors and failures. How do all of these ideas and states manifest themselves in our lives? In (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Jordan Baseman seeks to question something of the broad spectrum of human experience.

Artist’s Talk: Jordan Baseman and Professor Douglas Turkington

Wednesday 3rd October 2007, 6 – 8 pm / FREE

Roaming tour of the exhibition with Jordan Baseman, including an informal discussion with the artist and professor Douglas Turkington. Numbers limited: please contact the gallery to reserve a place.

Gallery Information

Monday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

Admission Free

The Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU – Telephone: 0191 222 6059 – Email: hatton-gallery@ncl.ac.uk – Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton

Grain

Jordan Baseman will also be in the group show Grain, an exploration of the contemporary landscape using sound, in Grain Power Station, Kent.

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